Garbage Collection #005 – Disaggregated Storage

In this podcast, recorded on 6th September 2017, Chris, Martin and Gavin discuss the subject of disaggregated storage. With the move to NVMe, traditional dual controller architectures are hamstrung by the need for all data to go via the processor(s). Disaggregation takes the component parts and makes them scalable, while removing the controller bottleneck. The guys discuss why these solutions are needed, who the players are in the market and what we can expect to see as this section of the storage industry develops.

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Timeline

00:00:00 – Introductions – What do we mean by disaggregation?

00:01:10 – Legacy architectures and dual controllers

00:03:57 – NVMe or not – it’s irrelevant

00:04:28 – Violin is back!

00:05:00 – Lost NVMe performance

00:06:00 – Thinking about tomorrow’s workloads and IoT

00:07:00 – A Raspberry Pi Diversion

00:08:28 – The old Mac versus PC debate again

00:09:00 – Vendor roundup

00:10:13 – Much of this looks like HCI – is the problem the interconnect?